Thursday, April 26, 2018

Dedicating Merit:

DEDICATING THE MERIT

Lama Palden Drolma says: "There is such power in sharing the good
results in our lives -- whether in meditation or in anything else we do. The
practice of 'dedicating the merit' in Tibetan Buddhism is an act of radical
imagination that has a real impact.
"In dedicating our meditation to ease the suffering of all beings, we
engage in an act of radical imagination. Our radical imagining is that all
beings are free, at peace, and awakened. Imagining this stretches our
minds and creates the possibility for it to actually happen, because if we
cannot imagine something, it's nearly impossible to actualize it.
"In this radical imagining, our vision includes everyone equally in our love.
This develops our generosity, loving-kindness, and commitment to the
equality of beings. This kind of beneficence does not condone anyone's
destructive actions. Rather it looks toward the possibility of liberating and
transforming the ignorance that drives people's destructive actions."